How can they not provide an in-game store.
I can't even imagine the amount of money and customers they've lost by not doing this. It is one of those things that is just utterly mind bending.
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Let's say I run an amusement park. I realize there is a pretty simple decision to make: Either
A) would-be- customers get to buy tickets and trinkets at the booth by the entrance
or
B) They don't get to do so.
In order to make ticket sales by the entrance possible, I'd have to invest on a booth. Hmm..NOPE. Buying a booth would cost too much in money and effort. I don't want to spend on a booth. So, instead, people will not be able to give me money by the entrance. Instead, the would-be-customers have to use tedious, confusing, easy to miss 3rd party web site for buying the tickets and trinkets. You just show up in amusement park and would like to buy additional apparel, some candy and teddy bears. You know, spend some cash on impulse while in there and having fun? What's that, you'd actually let me literally print money out of you? Wellp, I don't want to make a booth. Tough luck pal. No can do.
Now, word or two about the web site. My amusement park is called FunByFlagg. Recon the www site where I sell tickets and trinkets is called something like FunbyFlagg.com etc? Lol no. Think again. It is called ORIGINalamusementparksonline.com, and it features around 500 other parks, almost all of them more visible and advetrtized than mine. But hey.
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Mind..bending.
It's not that I greatly suffer from lack of such store on some personal level. It's not like I have burning desire to buy any UO store stuff as such. But I do want them to make more money. Cause that just might result in my fave game becoming better. Don't mistake this as some " novel idea" or letter to some suggestion box or something. It has been told to them time and again. Just expression of frustration.This should have happened 10 years back.
Why it still isn't the case I know not..
I can't even imagine the amount of money and customers they've lost by not doing this. It is one of those things that is just utterly mind bending.
- -
Let's say I run an amusement park. I realize there is a pretty simple decision to make: Either
A) would-be- customers get to buy tickets and trinkets at the booth by the entrance
or
B) They don't get to do so.
In order to make ticket sales by the entrance possible, I'd have to invest on a booth. Hmm..NOPE. Buying a booth would cost too much in money and effort. I don't want to spend on a booth. So, instead, people will not be able to give me money by the entrance. Instead, the would-be-customers have to use tedious, confusing, easy to miss 3rd party web site for buying the tickets and trinkets. You just show up in amusement park and would like to buy additional apparel, some candy and teddy bears. You know, spend some cash on impulse while in there and having fun? What's that, you'd actually let me literally print money out of you? Wellp, I don't want to make a booth. Tough luck pal. No can do.
Now, word or two about the web site. My amusement park is called FunByFlagg. Recon the www site where I sell tickets and trinkets is called something like FunbyFlagg.com etc? Lol no. Think again. It is called ORIGINalamusementparksonline.com, and it features around 500 other parks, almost all of them more visible and advetrtized than mine. But hey.
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Mind..bending.
It's not that I greatly suffer from lack of such store on some personal level. It's not like I have burning desire to buy any UO store stuff as such. But I do want them to make more money. Cause that just might result in my fave game becoming better. Don't mistake this as some " novel idea" or letter to some suggestion box or something. It has been told to them time and again. Just expression of frustration.This should have happened 10 years back.
Why it still isn't the case I know not..
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Certainly the robust, forward-thinking foundation on which UO was created still serves our needs today, right? RIGHT?